National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Alfred Stieglitz Key Set Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864 - 1946 From My Window at An American Place, Southwest March 1932 gelatin silver print sheet (trimmed to image): 19.3 × 24.1 cm (7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.) mount: 56.1 × 45.2 cm (22 1/16 × 17 13/16 in.) Alfred Stieglitz Collection 1949.3.1233 Stieglitz Estate Number 9D Key Set Number 1452 KEY SET ENTRY Related Key Set Photographs From My Window at An American Place, Southwest 1 © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Alfred Stieglitz Key Set Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz From My Window at An American From My Window at An American From My Window at An American Place, Southwest Place, Southwest Place, Southwest March 1932 March 1932 March 1932 gelatin silver print gelatin silver print gelatin silver print Key Set Number 1453 Key Set Number 1454 Key Set Number 1455 Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz From My Window at An American From My Window at An American From My Window at An American Place, Southwest Place, Southwest Place, Southwest 1932 April 1932 April 1932 gelatin silver print gelatin silver print gelatin silver print Key Set Number 1456 Key Set Number 1457 Key Set Number 1458 From My Window at An American Place, Southwest 2 © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Alfred Stieglitz Key Set Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz From My Window at An American From My Window at An American From My Window at An American Place, Southwest Place, Southwest Place, Southwest April/June 1932 April/June 1932 April/June 1932 gelatin silver print gelatin silver print gelatin silver print Key Set Number 1459 Key Set Number 1460 Key Set Number 1461 Alfred Stieglitz From My Window at An American Place, Southwest April/June 1932 gelatin silver print Key Set Number 1462 Remarks This photograph and Key Set numbers 1453–1462 depict the construction of the RKO Building at Rockefeller Center. The project is so thoroughly documented that From My Window at An American Place, Southwest 3 © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Alfred Stieglitz Key Set it is possible to date many of these images to the week they were made. This photograph and Key Set number 1453 were taken the week of 11 March; Key Set number 1454 the week of 14 March; Key Set number 1455 the week of 21 March; Key Set number 1456 the week of 4 April; Key Set numbers 1457 and 1458 the week of 11 April; and Key Set numbers 1459–1462 some time between late April and early June (see Photographic Views of New York, 1870s–1970s, nos. 383.D3, 552.D2–D3, 558.E7, 976.D7, and a print by Samuel H. Gottscho, in the Gottscho- Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, no. LC-G612-17823). The titles are based on those of similar works included in Stieglitz’s 1932 exhibition at An American Place. Shortly after the exhibition closed, Stieglitz began making this group of photographs. Stieglitz Collections A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.790 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.48 Lifetime Publications A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime: “Speaking of Pictures . These are by one of Photography’s Pioneers,” Life 14:14 (5 April 1943): 7 (ill., untitled, 1931) INSCRIPTION by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 9-D PROVENANCE Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949. From My Window at An American Place, Southwest 4 © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Alfred Stieglitz Key Set EXHIBITION HISTORY 1997 August Sander Archiv/SK Stiftung Kulture, Cologne, Germany, May 22–August 10, 1997 2001 Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001 2002 Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003 2016 Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2016–2017 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1996 Smith, Joel. "How Stieglitz Came to Photograph Cityscapes." History of Photography 20, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 326. 2000 Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 188. 2002 Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1452. To cite: Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/From My Window at An American Place, Southwest/March 1932,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/36384 (accessed September 28, 2021). From My Window at An American Place, Southwest 5 © National Gallery of Art, Washington.